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Jackie just got a new laptop, and you bet nuking it and reloading it with a clean copy of Windows was the first thing that I did. The desktop was packed with all sorts of useless utilities, helper bars for slow people who can't figure out the start menu and all manner of rubbish.

Lenovo's built in restore partition lets you reinstall without any of the crap that comes by default. I used that when I got this laptop to reinstall vista business...I'm not sure if it's still an option, but it may be an easier solution than having to download/burn/reinstall.

Great advice, would be interesting to see some sort of comparisson also on which laptops are the best and which are the worst in this regard. In my experience it doesn't get any worse than Sony when it comes to preloaded nonsense.